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Nancy Nettlefold – News From The Archive
“Have you any others like her?” There are some outstanding women represented in our archive collections. Nancy Nettlefold OBE is one of them. Lucy Frances Nettlefold, known as Nancy, was John Sutton Nettlefold’s niece. At 12 she became determined to study Law at Cambridge – an extraordinary ambition for a girl in 1903. In…
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Wintry thoughts on the polar regions
The North and South Poles may seem millions of miles away from Edgbaston, but Winterbourne can boast several connections to polar exploration and research. As we’re now in the depths of winter, it seemed an appropriate time to find out more and do some digging in the comfort of the archives! After it came into…